CoronaVirus Comics DR KILDARE "Skin Deep" Conclusion

When Last We Saw Our Stalwart, Dedicated, Young Resident...

...he had met Dr Yang Li, a talented British surgeon of Chinese descent who had come to America to teach new techniques to minimize diseases related to nutritional deficiency!

Volunteering to aid the English surgeon find an apartment for himself and his en-route family, the suo find the perfect place, close to the hospital.

But the owner, Bates, due to his hatred of Chinese in general, and Chinese doctors in particular, refuses to rent the "flat" (as the British call apartments).

But a fickle Fate is about to weave a web of irony...

Dr Kildare ran five years, ending in 1966.

In 1972, a prequel series without any of the cast members of the movie, radio or earlier TV series,  Young Dr Kildare, was syndicated to local stations.

Cancelled after a single season, it isn't available in any media.

Note: the 1960s tv series (by season, or a complete set), b-movie series, and episodes of the radio show are available in a variety of formats.

You can find them though the link to Amazon below...

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CoronaVirus Comics DR KILDARE "Skin Deep" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

Dr Yang Lin, a British citizen of Chinese descent, has come to America to teach about his speciality, dietary deficiency, at Los Angeles' Blair General Hospital.

Seeking an apartment for himself and his family who will soon be arriving from England, Yang and Dr Kildare (who volunteers to help familiarize Yang with the city) check out the neighborhood around the hospital.

Seeing a "for rent" sign, they ring the doorbell, but the building's owner refuses to rent to Yang...

Fate has a strange way of taking a hand in such matters, as we shall see in the conclusion...

NEXT WEEK!

I suspect this was either an adaptation of an aired episode or an unused script sent by the producers as a guideline for the comic's writers...but used almost verbatim!
It's incredibly-wordy for an original comic script, with some of the dialogue balloons taking up half a panel at a time!

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CoronaVirus Comics DR KILDARE "Skin Deep" Part 1

Appropriately, a story about both a pandemic and anti-Asian prejudice...

...in this time when CoronaVirus is experiencing another uptick and violence against those of Asian descent is hitting levels unseen in decades!

To Be Continued...

NEXT WEEK!

If you're under the age of 60 or so, you're probably asking...

WHO THE HECK IS DR KILDARE???

Created in the 1930s by author Frederick Schiller Faust using his "Max Brand" pen-name  (which he  also used on his better-known Old West tales), the Dr Kildare stories inspired popular simultaneous B-movie and dramatic radio series in the 1940s starring hunky newcomer Lew Ayres as the handsome, witty, intelligent, but fallible, intern James Kildare mentored by crusty department head Leonard Gillespie, played by noted actor Lionel Barrymore!

In 1961, noting reruns of both the movie series (syndicated on local TV) and the radio show (playing on college radio stations) were doing amazingly-well with the 18-45 female audience, MGM went ahead with an updated TV version starring hunky newcomer Richard Chamberlain...

 ...as the young intern learning the ropes under crusty department head Gillespie...

...played by noted actor Raymond Massey!

(See a pattern?)

The socially-relevant series tackled a number of controversial topics including sickle cell anemia, drug addiction, epilepsy, and racism! 

Stories about birth control and venereal disease were "killed" by NBC censors before they could be filmed!
The immediate success of the series inspired both a popular copycat (Ben Casey) as well as reformatting of other ongoing medical dramas to play up their existing young male doctors or create new young male doctor characters to help them compete with Kildare!

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